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white line drawn down his back to his tail ; all which add much 

 beauty to his whole body. And it is to me observable, that at 

 a fixed age this caterpillar gives over to eat, and towards Winter 

 comes to be covered over with a strange shell or view sir 



crust, called an Aurelia, and so lives a kind of dead Bacon E x P er. 



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life, without eating all the Winter; and, as others in his Natural 

 of several kinds turn to be several kinds of flies History.' 

 and vermin the Spring following, so this caterpillar then turns 

 to be a painted butterfly. 



Come, come my Scholar, you see the river stops our morning 

 walk, and I will also here stop my discourse, only as we sit 

 down under this honeysuckle hedge, whilst I look a line to fit 

 the rod that our brother Peter hath lent you, I shall, for a 

 little confirmation of what I have said, repeat the observation 

 of Du Bartas. 



God, not contented to each kind to give, 6. Day of 



And to infuse the virtue generative, Du Bartas. 



By his wise power made many creatures breed 

 Of lifeless bodies without Venus' deed. 



So the cold humour, breeds the Salamander, 

 Who, in effect, like to her birth's commander, 

 With child with hundred winters, with her touch, 

 Quencheth the fire though glowing ne'er so much. 



So in the fire in burning furnace springs 

 The Fly Perausta with the flaming wings; 

 Without the fire it dies, in it it joys, 

 Living in that which all things else destroys. 



So, slow Bootes underneath him sees ViewGerh. 



In th' icy islands goslings hatch'd of trees, Herbal and 



Whose fruitful leaves falling into the water, Camden. 

 Are turn'd, 'tis known, to living fowls soon after. 



So rotten planks of broken ships do change 

 To Barnacles. O transformation strange 1 

 'Twas first a green tree, then a broken hull, 

 Lately a mushroom, now a flying Gull. 



VEN. O my good Master, this morning-walk has been 

 spent to my great pleasure and wonder : but I pray, when shall 

 I have your direction how to make Artificial Flies, like to those 

 that the Trout loves best? and also how to use them? 



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